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Length of time on this. the language which he's used about this going on for months or years. although hyperbole suggests that, you know, the thing that he's concerned about the most is this policy commitment on the wall. and i think that's because he's thinking about his core supporters who at the end of the day is the first constituency that president trump thinks about when he takes action. >> what are the possible political ramifications of doing that? because he doesn't really -- even though he's playing to hiz base we're talking about maybe 39%. it's not a great support there. so really ...

And perhaps longer, will keep that deal alive, long enough for european allies to convince the president not to blow it up, for congressional republicans to convince the president not to walk away from the deal, et cetera. when it comes to health care, though, for now and you saw the president talking at the value voter summit, some of the moves on health care have involved taking away coverage of birth control and that sort of thing. that absolutely is red meat for the base. one of the longer term questions is how some of those members of his base will feel when they themselves lose health be...

On was right on track to what he wants to hear and a lot of his actions are right on track where they think the president ought to be. so in both words and deeds he's been very appealing to the values voters and i suspect they're going to then this political traction for the next three years because they want to maintain their policy influence over the white house and of course the president wants to maintain this part of his base. >> so president trump also reignited his war on christmas rhetoric. >> they don't use the word christmas because it's not politically correct. you go department sto...

This is made up. margaret. >> well, it's all for the -- it's for the base. i can't even tell you -- sorry if maria is going. >> look, i was going to say thank god that the president addressed this, don, because i know that this is what keeps every single american up at night. this is a huge problem in the country. so i'm glad the president is focusing on it. i'm being facetious for those of you -- >> political crack to thiz base. why do you say that? >> yes. it is absolutely political crack to his base. because, to margaret's point, the audience that he was speaking to today eats it up. and wh...

At removing those subsidies. that's going to have an effect on millions of people, and many of those millions of people are trump supporters. and the question politically is will they blame him or will they blame barak obama. the question substantively is what's going to happen to coverage for those americans. >> well, he certainly will blame barak obama. and it's interesting because he has fooled his base into saying that it is fake news, that the exchanges obamacare is collapsing and into believing it. and then when they start losing health care he's going to say you're losing your health ca...